A Personal Encounter with the Submissive Woman/Bound Slave Rorschach Test

Language Log 2026-02-06

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[This is a guest post by Michael Broughton.] I had an interesting Rorschach encounter with the oracle bone graph for woman a couple of years back. Oddly, this experience came in a rather roundabout way through an investigation into the character for interpretation, yi 譯. At the time, I was starting my Chinese translation business […]

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Victor Mair

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02/06/2026, 01:10

Date published:

02/05/2026, 23:46